Fellow G-Books users: I have a graphite (clamshell) iBook SE with 320M RAM and the standard 10G hard drive (about 4.5G of free space), Jaguar (10.2.4) and iMovie 2. (iMovie 3 won't work on clamshell machines because of their low screen resolution, I hear. Right?)
Although this model was originally promoted as ideal for working with iMovie and digital video cameras, it's giving me a heck of a time as I try to download digital video (via FireWire) -- audio and video dropouts, "disk slow to respond" error messages, etc. -- even when I've shut down Airport, Classic and other background processes. Questions: Can anyone recommend a way to optimize performance of this particular system -- preferably with minimal expenditure? If I need even more disk space (and, yes, I realize that's desirable, but right now my only goal is to get a good dub of a 3-minute video segment; that should fit on 4 gigs, right?) is it possible to hook up a DV camera AND an external (FW) drive simultaneously and use the external drive as a receptacle for incoming video? Any way to write data from the video camera directly to a CD-R (or RW) using iMovie and this iBook? If so, anyone care to make recommendations for hard drives that work well with this machine? Thanks in advance for your counsel. Charlie Meyerson -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
